Mapping conflicts of prioritization: National parliamentary discourses on urban greening and biodiversity implementation in Germany and Italy (upcoming)

In: Conflicts in urban future-making: Governance, institutions, and transformative change, Editors: Monika Grubbauer, Alessandra Manganelli, Louis Volont

By analysing parliamentary debates, Arlati deploys a discourse network analysis (DNA) to reconstruct temporally the political debates on urban greening policy in the German and Italian parliaments. The results show that politicians generally agree with the importance of urban greening, but other issues are prioritised by applying strategies to delay decisions. The author identifies a series of latent conflicts to explain such delays.